Senior Cloud Database Administrator – MySQL, AWS RDS, Aurora

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🌐 Mexico, Argentina, +3 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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📀 Database Administrator

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CrewBloom

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2016

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

🎯 Recruiter

B2B • SaaS • Recruitment

CrewBloom is a remote staffing agency dedicated to connecting businesses with top-tier remote talent across various industries. They streamline the hiring process by sourcing, screening, and onboarding qualified candidates tailored to the specific needs of their clients, ensuring a seamless integration into teams. With a focus on global talent acquisition, CrewBloom empowers companies to scale their operations efficiently while reducing costs and maintaining compliance with HR regulations.

📋 Description

• Administer and optimize MySQL/InnoDB databases on AWS RDS and Aurora MySQL, including provisioning, scaling, patching, upgrades, and decommissioning • Troubleshoot complex production issues such as slow queries, replication lag, locking, deadlocks, and resource contention • Tune performance through execution plan analysis, query and index optimization, and InnoDB configuration • Design and maintain backup, restore, PITR, and disaster recovery procedures meeting defined RTOs and RPOs • Support high availability using Aurora clusters, Multi-AZ, read replicas, and automated failover • Monitor health, performance, and capacity using CloudWatch and Performance Insights/Database Insights, and recommend right-sizing • Automate DBA operations and build self-service capabilities using Python, Bash, SQL, AWS CLI, and Infrastructure as Code where applicable • Implement secure, least-privilege configurations, including IAM, encryption, and credential management, and support audits and compliance • Participate in on-call and incident response, including root cause analysis • Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum team and maintain runbooks, documentation, and database standards

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Database Administration, Database Engineering, or Database Reliability Engineering • Extensive hands-on MySQL experience with deep knowledge of InnoDB internals (transactions, locking, deadlocks, buffer pool, redo/undo logs, crash recovery) • Strong hands-on experience administering MySQL on AWS RDS and/or Aurora MySQL • Proven performance tuning, query optimization, and troubleshooting skills • Strong experience with backups, restores, PITR, disaster recovery, and high availability (Multi-AZ, read replicas, Aurora failover) • Hands-on experience with CloudWatch and Performance Insights/Database Insights • Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, SQL, AWS CLI, or similar) • Solid understanding of AWS security (IAM, encryption, access controls) • Experience in Agile teams, with strong communication and documentation skills • Preferred: Terraform or CloudFormation; AWS Lambda, Systems Manager, or EventBridge; PostgreSQL; Kubernetes/EKS; CI/CD; regulated environments; AWS cost optimization; building self-service database platforms

🏖️ Benefits

• Experience our fun, inclusive, innovative culture that values your unique contributions and supports your professional growth. • Daily opportunities to learn, innovate, and excel. • Career growth opportunities and resources. • High-energy, engaging work environment. • Freedom to work from home or any location of your choice. • Work-life balance with no stressful commute.